Top 40 reasons to be a nurse.

[coolpeach]

In the other forums on this site I have come across many lists in reference to top tens of why to be a nurse. I just love them they are so funny. I combined them into a top forty and posted them on them thread so you guys could see them and laugh with me.

Feel free to add some more of your own.

1. I love to wear white support hose.

2. I think blood is a pretty cool color.

3. I get a kick out of arrogant doctors.

4. Courteous and infalliable doctors who always leave clear orders in perfectly legible handwriting.

5. You have an overwhelming urge to humiliate doctors ... or marry them.

6. It's more challenging than brain surgery.

7. You crave excess stress in your already stressed out life?

8. If you don't, who will?

9. You have this overwhelming desire to feel important?

10. The doctors need you to care for their patients 24/7 so they don't have to?

11. I get free latex gloves.

12. The interesting aroma

13. To prove once and for all that you do have a strong stomach.

14. You still love to "assist" when playing doctor.

15. You couldn't get an acting role on ER, so you opted for the real thing.

16. You get to see your friends and family turn a variety of interesting colors at the dinner table(after you share THOSE stories)

17. The scrubs are so flattering to my figure.

18. Fashonable shoes and sexy white uniforms.

19. Cause I can wear my pajamas to work, or at least feel like I did.

20. To look sexy in your scrubs, your uniform, your white lab coat?

21. White is your color.

22. You went to visit a friend in the hospital ... and never left.

23. The world doesn't need any more lawyers.

24. To prove to everyone that an "A" in high school chemistry does mean something, after all.

25. Do enough charting to navigate around the world.

26. Celebrate holidays with all your friends at work!!!

27. Expose yourself to rare, exotic, and exciting diseases.

28. I actually like vending machine food.

29. Somebody has to train the medical students

30. You're a natural-born "night person."

31. You blew your chance to become a nun / priest ... at age fourteen!

32. You are needed!

33. I always wanted to say: "This won't hurt a bit."

34. Needles: Tis better to give than to recieve.

35. Reassure your patients that all bleeding stops... eventually.

36. Take comfort that most of your patients survive no matter what you do to them.

37. Pay is better than fast food, though the hours aren't as good.

38. Because you have the gift and the life to give, and you want to give it, because it makes you feel good.

39. Because I can work three days a week and make how much?!

40......Because it is better than you ever imagined it to be;

Because it is worse than you ever imagined it to be;

Because you get back so much more than you give;

Because they take more than you have to give;

But in the end......

Because there is nothing else on this earth you can see yourself doing.

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

I love it!!

[LMRN10]

Awesome...thanks for that - that was great!

[*Blessed2BaNRS*]

Thank you coolpeach!! This is great!

Let's see, what else can we add...

41. Because I felt that I didn't get enough reading into my brain when I was in HS (had to add that one since I just spent BIG $$ on my books!!)

42. Because I figured that I ought to get paid for nursing ( and doctoring) all of my children all these years!

[Gurmo]

43. Because right now I'm making too much money......

[JBGC4]

I love # 39.

[Chantels1]

34 is my favorite!

[MMARN, BSN, RN]

44. Because nursing (especially psych) is a sensory experience,

45. Because I love it when I feel my eyes cross after so much reading.

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

I love #33, and #4 (have to tell that one to a doctor I know)

But #38 is the one that's motivating me.

[doubleohseven]

lol 39 is 1 of the reasons for me....

[NURSE-J.BELLA]

YOU MIGHT BE IN THE HEALTH CARE FIELD IF........

Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you.

Your idea of a good time is a full code at shift change.

You find humor in other people's stupidity.

You believe in aerial spraying of Prozac.

Your idea of comforting a baby is to place him in a papoose restraint.

You believe that shallow gene pool should require a diagnosis.

You believe CHOCOLATE is a food group.

You believe that unspeakable evil will befall you if anyone ever says, "Boy, it sure is quiet around here".

When you are out in public, you compliment complete strangers on their great veins.

You have ever referred to someone's death as a transfer to the Eternal Care Facility.

Your idea of a really good time is dueling Shock rooms.

You have ever had to leave a patient's room before you began laughing uncontrollably.

You think caffeine should be available in IV form.

You have ever restrained someone, and it was not a sexual experience.

The most commonly uttered phrase on the night shift is "What changed tonight, at two a.m., that makes it an emergency after six months".

You believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis.

You want the lab to order a 'Dumbshit Profile'.

You believe that the waiting room should be supplied with a Valium salt-lick.

You have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled 'Suicide...Doing it Right'.

You've been exposed to so many x-rays that you say, "No, I don't worry about birth control....I've been irradiated."

Your client states, "I have no idea how that got stuck in there."

You don't think a referral to Dr. Kevorkian is inappropriate.

You have your weekends off marked and planned for a year.

You have discovered a new condition that you call Hypo-Xanax-emia.

You plan what you are having for dinner while doing a gastric lavage.

You know that drug seekers will be allergic to all medicines except Demerol.

You encourage an obnoxious patient to sign out AMA just so you don't have to deal with them anymore.

[doubleohseven]

^ lol Alot of those apply to me just from being in the military... past tense...